This was a very bad ink/paper combination. The Bleu Azur is a very light colored ink and its flow was extremely dry in an extra fine nibbed Lamy Safari fountain pen. Clairefontaine Basics journal with 90g bright white paper can sometimes be a bit unforgiving with dry inks, and such was this case with the Bleu Azur. It looked nice when I used it with the glass dip pen, so perhaps it might be better suited for wide nibbed wet writers. (A pen that typically writes very wet.)

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It is a light ink, but seems to work pretty well in my Levenger True Writer with a "Fine" nib. Their fine seems to be a bit broader than Lamy's fine, so it seems a little darker (though still not a dark ink). I think you're right about a wetter writer though; the ink does seem to be on the dry side.

My favorite ink is the J. Herbin "Cafė des Îles" which you've also reviewed, but my second favorite is this one...using a glass or dip pen may not be best because this is a very pale ink. I find that in a medium Pelikan M200 14K nib the ink flows very well and a page of writing looks like a view of the Carribean shores - luminous blue, very nice. I hope you might try it a bit more with a flexible, broader gold nib and perhaps you'll not ask "why".

My favorite ink is the J. Herbin "Cafė des Îles" which you've also reviewed, but my second favorite is this one...using a glass or dip pen may not be best because this is a very pale ink. I find that in a medium Pelikan M200 14K nib the ink flows very well and a page of writing looks like a view of the Carribean shores - luminous blue, very nice. I hope you might try it a bit more with a flexible, broader gold nib and perhaps you'll not ask "why".

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